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How to cover environmental exposure studies

Association of Health Care Journalists

It’s a genre of medical study-based story all too familiar to health/science journalists: “a new study found X chemical in [common household product or food],” — the “scare” story that launches a thousand sensationalist headlines. We are best poised to help the public determine what they should and shouldn’t freak out about.